Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 16

Births

• 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. AD 37)
• 1873 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
• 1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921) (pictured)
• 1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
• 1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer
• 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actor

Deaths

• 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
• 1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
• 2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)